{"id":237,"date":"2003-04-03T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2003-04-03T16:25:43","modified_gmt":"2003-04-03T23:25:43","slug":"the-classics-are-just-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/the-classics-are-just-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"The classics are just classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/toolbar.aspx?action=read&#038;id=2081052\">turns out that classics <\/a>just sell better than best-sellers.<\/p>\n<p>All those books, even if they aren&#8217;t assigned for classes, get steadily picked up and read. People know about them, recommend them to other people, and they keep selling.<\/p>\n<p>I knew that. I love the classics. I make a point of reading them. I feel like I can know that I will enjoy the book, if it&#8217;s made the &#8220;classic&#8221; standing.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s exhilarating to read a new and undiscovered book that knocks my socks off&#8230;I think&#8230;I&#8217;m not sure it&#8217;s really happened.<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, yes it has.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s risky to try new things. And there are so many books that come so highly recommended. I reach for the tried-and-true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that classics just sell better than best-sellers. All those books, even if they aren&#8217;t assigned for classes, get steadily picked up and read. People know about them, recommend them to other people, and they keep selling. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/the-classics-are-just-classic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/2003\/04\/the-classics-are-just-classic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writtenbymurphy.com\/wonderblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}